Posts Tagged ‘ novel ’

One of the long shots in this endeavor is that we've never been paid for our writing; not that we've never been published... Then we'll get the comments and reviews from the "editors". After a few more tweaks, we'll submit the manuscripts and see how they fly with agents. Besides, a good children's book...
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I thought of the Roadies at concerts we've attended. Now those guys are Organized with a capital "O". I watched them recently as they switched equipment between bands; every person had tasks and every person performed their tasks accurately and deliberately. Each person stayed out of the way of the others. Change time between...
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Okay, time to pull my head out. I must have read this small excerpt half a dozen times before it caught my eye. I’m sure an editor or agent would have read that, rolled his or her eyes and put the manuscript back into the S.A.S.E.
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We’ve hit a few obstacles, not because we can’t decide how something is going to happen, or even what is going to happen next. The obstacles have been logistical, like thinking of something really good, how this and that fit together, and then forgetting what we said by the time we got home.
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Okay, we thought about it. Sounds like a plan. We figured we might as well jump all the way in, feet first. That’s our style: ready-set-jump, look down. Sometimes it works to our benefit, sometimes not. But creative minds tend to run a little heavy on the emotional side and, after all, this was...
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